MENSA Question #67 Revealed

I truly thought that MENSA Question #67 was going to stump every Mitchievillian, but alas, I was wrong. Last Friday's question was actually answered in no time flat by no less than 4 of some of the smartest minds ever to grace the internets.

Richard Evans, Alex, Old Guy, and Blog Idaho, were on the answer quicker than a poker-playing Asian guy on a cigarette. Within minutes all 4 of these potential MENSA-heads got the answer correct, and for that I salute them. Salute!

Here's what the answer looked like before the fab four got their brains tightly wrapped around it:

If

N + N + M = 14

L + L + K = 20

M + K + N = 12

N + K + L = 18

What is the value of K?

The answer if 4.

I was very close, I guessed 3.99999. So very close, so very close indeed.

This Friday's MENSA question is going to be miles harder than last weeks, that I promise you. The good readership seem to be cutting through these questions like a knife cuts through warm butter. And for those of you not familiar with how quickly a knife cuts through warm butter, let me tell you, it cuts that damn butter with ease.

Congrats to Richard, the Old Guy, Alex, and RG, you all officially have a place on the Mitchieville Hall of Fame, right next to Jessica Alba. Actually, it's kind of down the wall from Jessica Alba, but what the hell, you should be lucky to be on the same wall as her. Quit yer bitchin'.